A report earlier this week indicated that O.J. Mayo told the staff at USC that he would be joining them for the 2007-2008 academic year, but on Thursday the phenom clarified the situation.

Bill Walker is Mayo's teammate at North College Hill and is ranked second behind him.

"Me and Bill are still looking at Florida and K-State," Mayo told the Herald News of West Paterson, N.J. "But USC is first on my list, and then K-State and Florida."

"I'd like to try to get it over with by this week," Mayo told the Herald News. "I'm still talking it over with my mother and my grandfather. I'm going to take a visit (to Florida) and K-State and make a final decision. A verbal is just a verbal. (USC) is what I like right now, but that could change."